摘要:
A fastener assembly for securing a pair of contiguous standards at substantially right-angles relative to each other is provided which includes a fastener comprising first and second perpendicularly oriented webs, and means mounted on the second web for connecting a standard thereto; and including a first standard having a configured through slot, the second web being introduced through the slot until the first web abuts the first standard; and a second standard abutting the second web and being contiguous with the first standard.
摘要:
A ball-and-socket linkage for interconnecting polyhedrel members comprising a pair of balls each having four coplanar flat spots spaced at 90* intervals; a rod for detachably connecting the balls, a spherical, open socket formed in a face of each member for snugly receiving more than one-half of the surface of one of the balls, and four U-shaped grooves formed in said face and extending from the socket opening to the face edge, said grooves being spaced about 90* from each other around the opening and the diameter of the opening being slightly greater than the flatspot-to-flat-spot diameter of the ball. A plurality of such members and linkages are used as ''''executive'''' toys and for constructing artistic assemblages thereof.
摘要:
This invention is concerned with didactic structural apparatus and comprises a plurality of uniformly shaped and dimensioned cuboidal units and connecting means therefore whereby said units can be assembled to provide stable examples of areas and threedimensional solids which can be used in the teaching of arithmetic and geometry.
摘要:
THE APPLICATION DISCLOSES GEOMETRIC TOY BLOCKS IN THE SHAPE OF RHOMBIC HEXAHEDRA. FOUR OBTUSE HEXAHEDRA WITH FACE VERTICES OF 109*28''17" FIT TOGETHER TO MAKE MANY GEOMETRIC SHAPES INCLUDING THE RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON. TEN ACUTE HEXAHEDRA AND TEN OBTUSE HEXAHEDRA WITH FACE VERTICES OF 116*33''54 FIT TOGETHER TO MAKE MANY GEOMETRIC SHAPES INCLUDING THE RHOMBIC TRIACONTAHEDRON. THE HEXAHEDRON BLOCKS HAVE ATTACHING MEANS, PREFERABLY AS SHOWN IN PAT. NO. 3,413,752, FOR ATTACHING THE BLOCKS TOGETHER IN FACE TO RELATION, IN THIS SITUATION THE BLOCKS ARE MADE WITH TWO GROUP OF THREE FACES EACH INTEGRALLY FORMED AND JOINED AT THEIR COMMON VERTEX TO THE STEMS OF THE LATCHES WHICH EXTEND THROUGH THE THREE FACES OF THE OTHER GROUP.